To answer your last question first: If this is your first incubator, it would be nice to have it up and running for a week before you expect the eggs to appear, so you can tinker with it without being afraid that you’ll destroy a clutch. The more experience you have with your particular setup, the less time you’ll need to do that in the future. Sometimes I don’t turn my incubator on until I see the first clutch of eggs. But I still watch it closely for the first few days to make sure it stabilizes properly. Of course, you want to get the incubator in as soon as possible now just in case there’s a problem or defect which might require repair or exchange.



I can’t recommend an incubator brand. I wasted money on a couple of very nice bird egg incubators many years ago which were too small to contain secondary containers with large python eggs. Since then I’ve used a homemade one which has worked well even though the components aren’t the latest technology.



-Joan

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